It is now too late for Obama to rescue Syria

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The world might have stopped a barbarous civil war, now darkened by chemical weapons

It may be that 70,000 deaths from conventional warfare should have been enough
to attract the attention of the international community but it was the use
of chemical weapons in Syria’s two year civil war that caused the world to
stir. At least for a brief window last week, we were all forced to
acknowledge a conflict that hasn’t received a fraction of the attention that
we all gave to the Iraq war.

The cause was last week’s publication by The Times of gruesome
images of white froth pouring from the mouth of Yasser Yunis. His wife and
two of